NYPD To Begin Deploying Drones In 911 Call Responses

The New York Daily News reports:

Drones will soon be accompanying cops on 911 calls throughout the city, NYPD officials said. A new Drone as First Responder pilot program will be in effect in coming months, beginning with four NYPD police precincts and the Central Park precinct, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry announced at a hearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security.

“The plan, to be rolled out in the coming months, is to deploy these drones in response to certain 911 calls for service,” Daughtry told the committee on Thursday, not elaborating on what type of calls the drones will respond to. Three of the precincts participating in the program are in Brooklyn, Daughtry said. A fourth is in the Bronx. The precincts were chosen “based on recent crime trends,” he explained.

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Today, @NYPDChiefPatrol and I delivered testimony before the Emergency Management and Technology and Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Subcommittee Hearing on Unmanned Aerial Systems: An Examination on the Use of Drones in Emergency Response. We discussed how… pic.twitter.com/rN2uA4YeeD

— NYPD Deputy Commissioner, Operations Kaz Daughtry (@NYPDDaughtry) May 16, 2024